From f4f9765a02e314d6fac5387825b1e8c2ec1c1831 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glauber Costa Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:36:33 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: vmalloc search restart fix Current vmalloc restart search for a free area in case we can't find one. The reason is there are areas which are lazily freed, and could be possibly freed now. However, current implementation start searching the tree from the last failing address, which is pretty much by definition at the end of address space. So, we fail. The proposal of this patch is to restart the search from the beginning of the requested vstart address. This fixes the regression in running KVM virtual machines for me, described in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/349, caused by commit bef581e09ac9bfa6e86dabfd929889cbe8e0178a. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmalloc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 04f5e320e7445..30f826d484f0b 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -324,14 +324,14 @@ static struct vmap_area *alloc_vmap_area(unsigned long size, BUG_ON(size & ~PAGE_MASK); - addr = ALIGN(vstart, align); - va = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct vmap_area), gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK, node); if (unlikely(!va)) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); retry: + addr = ALIGN(vstart, align); + spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock); /* XXX: could have a last_hole cache */ n = vmap_area_root.rb_node; -- 2.39.5